Personal "Energy Crisis?

Are You Having a Personal "Energy Crisis?"

What do you think is the most pressing health problem facing Americans today?

Cancer? Diabetes? Heart disease?

Those are certainly serious problems - but there's another health crisis that's being caused by the unprecedented stressbombarding us every single day and night

We're sleeping less and worrying more.

It's absolutely true.

Americans are so stressed-out...and all this stress is creating an epidemic of fatigue that's sapping their energy, stamina, and optimism.

America's other "energy crisis"

As a result, millions of adults are slogging through the day, feeling tired and worn-out -- half-awake and chronically exhausted.

To give you an idea of how widespread this problem is, sales of caffeinated energy drinks will top $9 billion this year! This is a product category that didn't even exist in 2002!

But caffeine just makes the problem worse!

That's because the underlying problem is that our adrenal glands have hit "burnout" due to the relentless stress we're under.

Consuming these energy drinks is like flogging an exhausted oarsman to make him row harder. "That's the real danger," according to Dr. Alan Pressman, "because this can cause a serious breakdown in the body's protective immunes system. That's the beginning of real health problems."

See Dr. Pressman's fascinating explanation here »

Other ways we're coping:

Even more troubling are the unhealthy ways people are coping with this barrage of stress-induced fatigue.

They're eating more to calm themselves (mostly fattening carbohydrate "comfort foods") ... drinking more alcohol and using recreational drugs ... turning to tobacco for stress-relief ... and gulping tranquilizers, painkillers, and sleeping pills in record numbers.

Of course, none of these can solve the "adrenal crisis" that's at the heart of the problem.

A new natural solution that does...

"When the adrenal glands are burned-out, the only solution is a ‘re-charge,'" as Dr. Pressman says, "like when you car battery is too weak to start the engine."

"Usually, the most effective remedy is a two-week vacation in the mountains or at the beach," he continued. "But few people take the time for that - so I came up with a solution that's the next best thing."

Written by Dr. Jonny Bowden

The war on Cancer by Dr. Mercola

Winning the War Against Cancer Begins with Your Personal Choices

You can do a lot, right now, to significantly decrease your cancer risk. Even the conservative American Cancer Society states that one-third of cancer deaths are linked to poor diet, physical inactivity, and carrying excess weight. So making the following healthy lifestyle changes can go a very long way toward ending the failure-streak and becoming one less statistic in this war against cancer:

1. Normalize your vitamin D levels with safe amounts of sun exposure. This works primarily by optimizing your vitamin D level. Ideally, monitor your vitamin D levels throughout the year.
2. Control your insulin levels by limiting your intake of processed foods and sugars/fructose as much as possible.
3. Get appropriate amounts of animal-based omega-3 fats.
4. Get appropriate exercise. One of the primary reasons exercise works is that it drives your insulin levels down. Controlling insulin levels is one of the most powerful ways to reduce your cancer risks.
5. Eat according to your nutritional type. The potent anti-cancer effects of this principle are very much underappreciated. When we treat cancer patients in our clinic this is one of the most powerful anti-cancer strategies we have.
6. Have a tool to permanently erase the neurological short-circuiting that can activate cancer genes. Even the CDC states that 85 percent of disease is caused by emotions. It is likely that this factor may be more important than all the other physical ones listed here, so make sure this is addressed. My particular favorite tool for this purpose, as you may know, is the Emotional Freedom Technique.
7. Only 25 percent of people eat enough vegetables, so by all means eat as many vegetables as you are comfortable with. Ideally, they should be fresh and organic. Cruciferous vegetables in particular have been identified as having potent anti-cancer properties. Remember that carb nutritional types may need up to 300 percent more vegetables than protein nutritional types.
8. Maintain an ideal body weight.
9. Get enough high-quality sleep.
10. Reduce your exposure to environmental toxins like pesticides, household chemical cleaners, synthetic air fresheners and air pollution.
11. Reduce your use of cell phones and other wireless technologies, and implement as many safety strategies as possible if/when you cannot avoid their use.
12. Boil, poach or steam your foods, rather than frying or charbroiling them.